what is the best way to check if a check box is checked?

[usustarr]

WindowInfo doesn't give me much info. For example, "Name", "ID", "Text" all blank. I was able to use ControlGetHandle($title, "", $ClassnameNN) and get a handle.

But I still cant figure out how to check if the check box is checked or not. I don't want to check the color of the checkbox to achieve this. Can someone please give me a hand?

[Danp2]

Did you look at the help file example for GUICtrlGetState?

[Blue_Drache]

Did you look at the help file example for GUICtrlGetState?

 

Yeah, that's for an AutoIt created GUI. 

My following code is for a non AutoIt created GUI

If ControlCommand ( $str_Window, $str_WinText, $hctrl_ID, "IsChecked" ) then
   ConsoleWrite("Checked" & @CRLF)
Else
   ConsoleWrite("Not Checked" & @CRLF)
EndIf

 

Fill in proper values for the window, text and controlID/handle

Edited April 22, 2015 by Blue_Drache

[tweakster2010]

somewhere in your script you should have this.

Func _IsChecked($idControlID)
    Return BitAND(GUICtrlRead($idControlID), $GUI_CHECKED) = $GUI_CHECKED
EndFunc

then use to identify it.

If _IsChecked($checkbox you want to validate) = True Then

[mLipok]

If _IsChecked($checkbox you want to validate) = True Then

 

If function returns Boolean then you do not need using True / False in   If ... Then  syntax

Example:

If _IsChecked($checkbox_you_want_to_validate) Then
   ....
Else
   ....
EndIf

[usustarr]

 

somewhere in your script you should have this.

Func _IsChecked($idControlID)
    Return BitAND(GUICtrlRead($idControlID), $GUI_CHECKED) = $GUI_CHECKED
EndFunc

then use to identify it.

If _IsChecked($checkbox you want to validate) = True Then

How do I get the controller ID? I tried GUICtrlCreateCheckBox("whats displayed with check box", 1, 1), it returns 0. Windowinfo tool shows blank for ID

Edited April 24, 2015 by usustarr

[tweakster2010]

the $idControlID is just your variable in the check, so 

If _isChecked($variable to be checked) = True/False Then

The goal of your script.

That is how I use it,but mLipok and Blue_Drache did provide alternates if this does not work for you.

This allowed me to use multiple check boxes no issue. Just make sure you are using your If Then or Case Switches appropriately. my script the way I use it this way worked best but the way you want to use it 1 of there ways may be more user friendly in a sense.

Or I am just a dingbat and use it a way that makes no sense and just happens to work LOL (this has happened a few times)

[usustarr]

 

somewhere in your script you should have this.

Func _IsChecked($idControlID)
    Return BitAND(GUICtrlRead($idControlID), $GUI_CHECKED) = $GUI_CHECKED
EndFunc

then use to identify it.

If _IsChecked($checkbox you want to validate) = True Then

I don't have a way to get the controlID, even the _WinAPI_GetDlgCtrlID returns 0.

[usustarr]

Yeah, that's for an AutoIt created GUI. 

My following code is for a non AutoIt created GUI

If ControlCommand ( $str_Window, $str_WinText, $hctrl_ID, "IsChecked" ) then
   ConsoleWrite("Checked" & @CRLF)
Else
   ConsoleWrite("Not Checked" & @CRLF)
EndIf

Fill in proper values for the window, text and controlID/handle

I used the controlComman($Title, "", $hHandle, "IsChecked"), still not working. It always says box is not checked, even when the box is checked

[Blue_Drache]

Post a screenshot of the window you're trying to work with.  Post some of your code. 

[usustarr]

Nothing seems to be working, so I decided to check the color of the tick in the check box. It seems to be working well.

[antonioj84]

usustarr please share the code, I would like to see it  thanks ahead for the contribution  (check the color of the tick in the check box)